Using Mindfulness When You're Triggered with Rick Hanson

What should we do when we get triggered — especially by other people? In this talk, Rick Hanson talks about how mindfulness, focused attention, open awareness, and non-clinging help us manage reactivity, reduce rumination, and relate more wisely to ourselves and others.

00:00 - Reactivation and stress responses — including fawning/appeasing — and why they arise
02:16 - Right speech, unilateral virtue, and navigating impact vs. intent
06:17 - When others are triggered: personal responsibility vs. asking others to change
09:22 - What mindfulness actually is (and isn’t): sustained present-moment awareness
14:01 - The Satipaṭṭhāna instructions: diligence, clear knowing, and non-clinging
21:50 - Focused attention vs. open awareness — and when each is helpful
28:21 - From steadying the mind to opening and freeing it
36:30 - Emptiness, love, and the deep freedom of being “lived by all things”

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